I am rebranding my business and needed a short video to use on Facebook. After a visit to my…read morebusiness and a chat about what I wanted to accomplish, my video was ready with in a week. Billy was personable and professional. I recommend Bikerson Digital Media to assist with your media marketing needs. Kelly C Main Street Station, McHenry

We had a very poor experience with Pilot. We referred them to our client for an SEO project. Pilot…read morefailed to complete the tasks outlined in their statement of work and the communication between their team and the client was virtually nonexistent. Rod, the owner refused to take accountability or even return a phone call or email. Unfortunately it all ended on a fairly toxic note. Would strongly discourage people from working with Pilot.

I'd love to be able to recommend Rod and the crew at Chicago Style but sadly I cannot. Our…read moreexperience with them was an expensive waste of time, money and opportunity. Rod ignored my explanations of our needs and instead shoe-horned us into the budget plan that best fit his own goals. I met with him and his team multiple times in order to achieve a tailored strategy for our digital marketing but it felt like I was talking to a wall. We ended up finding a great gal on Upwork who is exactly the kind of responsive, engaged, and experienced professional we need and the kind of expert we thought Rod was when we first hired him.

This is my experience, and it may not be the experience of everyone. I really hoped for this to go…read morewell. I'll start off with the fact that I wanted to support a neighborhood business as I am a small business owner and we all often support each other. It started off really well. Claire was responsive and super friendly. We discussed a few ideas and she was super excited to create a few logo drafts. A few days later, she responded with her ideas. None of these looked professional or like there was professional effort put into them. That is subjective, however, and I can't discount any effort put in just because it didn't match the level of work I'd hoped for. So I politely and delicately expressed this to her and asked for guidance on the next steps. No response. After a few days, I followed up with her. She expressed regret that the designs weren't a good fit. She asked me for detail, which I provided in the subsequent email. After that email, I never received confirmation. I never received correspondence at all. I waited the rest of the week, the weekend, and the beginning of the next week. I had attempted to follow up with her to ask if she wanted to continue to work together as I hadn't heard anything back. No answer. It wasn't until I reached out explaining that I was having a hard time getting any communication from her and it may be a better idea to just refund what I'd paid for the product. She quickly responded that the turn around time had barely passed and (in thinly veiled passive aggression) expressed regret that I couldn't be patient for her. I explained that I would be absolutely ok with any time frame if she'd communicated with me. I said "Got your email, working on it" would have been absolutely enough just to let me know anything. I reiterated that I just hadn't heard from her at all and didn't know what to think by that point. She then responded with a different reason and it was that she had a family emergency. If she would have communicated that, I immediately would have responded with compassion and I would have told her to take all the time she needed. Life does not revolve around business. We all need to walk away sometimes and I can absolutely respect that. However, she hadn't communicated with me at all, so again, I didn't know what her intentions were or why she wasn't communicating. We decided to go our separate ways and she'd agreed to a refund. I thanked her and ignored the passive aggressive responses via text because those can be taken out of context sometimes. I thought about asking for confirmation when the refund would be sent, but I didn't want to push and just hoped by now she'd just take the initiative to communicate once the refund was initiated. Days went by, again, no communication, no refund. I text her requesting to follow up on the situation. She was very passive aggressive and said that she'd been trying to get a hold of me. (There was no proof of this on my end as I made sure to check). She sent me proof of sending me and email that was not in any thread we'd had. She sent over the refund and left with a sarcastic comment. I then responded that as a small business owner, I couldn't understand the need for nastiness, but if that's how she chose to run her business, so be it. She responded with laughing emojis stating that she was absolutely genuine and nice. I left that alone. I'm glad that this is over. In a different situation, this could have been great to work together to develop something cool. I would've loved to show off whatever we could come up with. Even if we couldn't have come up with a cool logo, I would have never asked for a refund and I would have been very vocal about a pleasant experience. Her lack of communication, professionalism, the entitled attitude when I would follow up or request very basic communication, and her responses made this a Yelpable experience.

Where do I start? I been struggling with my small business over the past years and we weren't…read moregetting any leads besides walk-in customers. I knew we needed to get a website and get involved in Social Media but I was just lazy and didn't have the time. From family to business, how am I going to juggle everything? I was skeptical at first but with a open mind I knew I will find a solution! My wife was encouraging me to get up and get this started! So I did and after great debate and research I found Amplify Chicago! I am not a huge fan on corporate companies and I wanted to stay local in our community and at the same time we wanted to support our local small businesses! Amplify Chicago has been the greatest business decision we ever made! They were so easy to work with and very professional! They helped me with my website and our Social Media and let me tell, business has grown! Of course, I wanted results instantly but with patience and customer engagement coming together, we knew through Amplify, our foot and online traffic dramatically increased! Thank you for everything Amplify Chicago! From the affordable rates to the professional customer service, we definitely recommend Amplify for your one stop solution! Kind Regards!

The team at RankOne is the best! They are flexible with budgets but provide amazing, modern…read morewebsite development that isn't cookie-cutter! Their SEO package has literally doubled our business this year - DURING A PANDEMIC! I would highly recommend giving them a try. They provide monthly reports and suggestions on how to improve your success using search engine rankings and social media platforms.

Repeat customers are the best endorsement, and we have worked with Jake Goldberg/Goldberg General…read moreContracting [GGC] on 2 projects in the past 15 years. Our experience was so positive, we will never work with any other contractor! Project One: restoration and rehab of a significant National and Chicago landmark: The Krause Music Store in Chicago, Louis Sullivan's last commission. Jake inspired trust and confidence in us from the beginning, patiently and thoughtfully answering all our questions. The project was barely 1% over budget, that too mainly because of changes we requested. This project won several awards, in no small part due to GGC's flawless execution: AIA, Dreihaus Foundation/ Landmarks Preservation etc. Was published in Architectural Record, The Tribune, on WBEZ, etc. Project Two: We loved working with GGC and the architects so much, 5 years later we hired the same team to design and build us a new contemporary home. This meticulously designed and constructed home gives us such pleasure and joy daily. Even today we turn to Jake/GGC for references and advice on any resources and maintenance questions. He has never failed us yet, however busy he is!! He even recalls all the constructions details, all the subs who worked on these older projects. Thats completely invaluable to us. Its not the norm to have a literate, communicative contractor who sticks to a budget and schedule. We consider ourselves fortunate to work with Jake Goldberg/GGC after hearing of other hellish contractor stories. There was complete lack of any conflict in the whole process. Freddy and Jason GGC are the most amazing foremen, we had complete trust an enjoyed working with them. Hard working, going above and beyond to produce a stellar product and maintaining a super relationship with their client [us]. Some of the words we'd use to describe Jake/GGC are: ethical; experienced in quality construction; provides a super high quality and solid product; quality conscious; fair minded; impeccable aesthetics; resourceful; adherence to a schedule; great honest skilled subs; value driven; calm and calming. We recommend them unreservedly. Working with this stellar company on our next project is a no-brainer!

Warranties work but doesn't honor the actual warranty. Would not recommend. Owner refuses to repair…read moresticker peeling within the warranty time period (4 year warranty and peeling began in 2 years).

Zebra Graphics has been designing and making T-shirts, sweatshirts and caps for our company for…read moremany years and we have never been disappointed.

I had a great experience working with all of them…read more Especially Claire! I now have my brand established, All thanks to ADS!

Fui a American Digital Studios para un servicio de diseño de logotipos, pero mi experiencia fue…read moreterrible. Jennifer Blaze, quien me atendió, no cumplió con las expectativas básicas del servicio y su actitud fue extremadamente grosera e irrespetuosa durante todo el proceso. La falta de atención al detalle y de profesionalismo fue evidente. En resumen, American Digital Studios es una empresa con la que no vale la pena trabajar. No recomendaría a nadie que trabaje con esta empresa. Evítala a toda costa.

Nate is so awesome at what he does. Social media is both a science and an art. We hired Ruben…read moreDigital to align our social media effort to our brand alignment and he has impressed me every step of the way

I contracted with Ruben digital for a website redesign. The cost was 6,000. The price was jacked up…read moreevery step of the way. it now stands at 10,000. It was supposed to be live last fall and it is now March. The launch was a complete disaster, nothing worked, the verbiage was distorted and had many typos. I had to run interference with my customers who rely on the information the site was supposed to provide. Nate Ruben did nothing but make excuses. He doesn't work for the company full time anymore and his people don't know what they are doing.